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<b><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Commissioner Brad Avakian<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Bureau of Labor & Industries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Press Release<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Immediate Distribution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>October 24, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CONTACT: Bob Estabrook, 503-709-0730<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">New Video Shows Impact of BOLI-ODOT Workforce Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:black">Online video highlights stories of apprentices who received direct support<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">PORTLAND –</span></b><span style="color:black"> The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) and Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) are seeing real results from the BOLI-ODOT Heavy Highway Workforce
Development Program, a partnership aimed at growing and diversifying Oregon’s highway construction workforce in coming years. The program funds supportive services contracts to community providers that promote recruitment and retention of apprentices, especially
women and people of color who are not traditionally directed toward construction career pathways that can lead to high-skill, living-wage jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Program provides services on a continuum of workforce needs from career exploration in North Wasco County to pre-apprenticeship training in the Rogue Valley, from evaluation and guidance to direct assistance for current apprentices.
Direct assistance includes: <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">transportation assistance to get to work and classes,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">subsidies for child care, and
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">job readiness funds for work tools, work clothes, and personal protective equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">“Promoting these living wage careers is a win-win for Oregon,” said State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, chief of BOLI. “Highly skilled workers can get the wages and benefits that support a family and allow
the purchase of local goods and services, and Oregon employers will have the skilled workforce they need to expand our economy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“We want our workforce development programs to provide long-term, sustainable careers rather than one-time jobs,” said ODOT Director Matthew Garrett. “We’re accomplishing this through our collaboration with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and
Industries.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">View the video at
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/OregonBOLI">www.youtube.com/user/OregonBOLI</a> and visit
</span><span style="color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/BOLI">www.oregon.gov/BOLI</a>
</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">for more information about all of BOLI’s work to support Oregon workers, local employers and a stronger economy.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoFooter" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The mission of the Bureau of Labor and Industries is to protect employment rights, advance employment opportunities, and protect access to housing and public accommodations
free from discrimination.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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